Introduction

The pictures came to my Studio by the hundred….original paintings by Breughel, Canaletto, Gauguin, Manet, Modigliani, Renoir, Stubbs, Titian, Turner, vanGogh….. I was paid millions of pounds to make copies. It is plainly evident when perusing this website that I have removed the original paintings from their frames and the pictures share the same easel as my copy. This is what sets me apart from other Artists and is without parallel in the entire History of Art.

As a child I was knocked from pillar to post having four legal fathers. After failing my 11+ Examination I attended many different schools and lived in many houses – including a semi derelict slum in a grim Yorkshire pit village made all the worse by an abusive stepfather. Years later my mother died in a house fire.

I now have Clients all over the world: The Royal Family, foreign Royals, the Indian Raj, Middle Eastern Potentates, Russian and Chinese oligarchs, billionaires and the Rich and Famous.

I am often asked how I begin a copy and I am sometimes tempted to say with a telephone call from an Auction House, Art Dealer or Fine Art Agent.

The art world is built upon discretion and many of my Clients do not wish their business to be revealed to others – which in some ways is a pity, but, more importantly discretion is rewarded by trust. Additionally, with the advent of confidentiality agreements becoming increasingly popular means I can only reveal a fraction of the work I undertake. So often the best pictures have to be kept private.

Since the early 1970’s I have been undertaking copies of paintings in any style, to any size, anywhere in the World. My work is now represented across the five Continents and span an extraordinary range of Schools and centuries. Some pictures are as small as postcards whilst others are twelve feet square imitating artists styles as diverse as Titian and van Gogh.